Category: Science

For centuries, Mars has been seen as a potential place for future human settlements. But long-duration space travel comes with serious risks to astronauts’ health

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular star cluster called Messier 30 (M30), also called NGC 7099.

One of a human’s earliest developmental milestones is an understanding of object permanence. It generally takes less than a year for a baby to realize

Imaging and chemical analysis of a 115-million-year-old dinosaur fossil points to blood cells. But some aren’t convinced.

Gerrothorax maritimus, which existed about 237 million years ago, is the first ever amphibian known to have lived without access to land or freshwater.

A fledgling owl that lived 47 million years ago in what is now Germany offers tantalizing new clues about when most of these birds became

Symptoms of long COVID ease in half of patients within three years of the infection that kicked off their illness. That’s the primary conclusion of

Across 53 challenging days between fall 2020 and spring 2021, a 360-pound (160 kilograms) young male grizzly bear nicknamed “Lingenpolter” tried to cross Interstate 90

When it comes to spotting planets orbiting distant stars, the biggest hurdle is often separating the signal from the noise — specifically, trying to distinguish

Mars’ supersize Valles Marineris — the largest known canyon in the solar system — is still tectonically active even though the Red Planet is geologically

The view from inside a detector building block, with the yellow buoy of a nearby detection unit clearly visible. (Image credit: Edward Berbee/Nikhef) A particle-detecting

In the lab, octopuses used specific moves to slip arms and a bulbous body through tiny holes. The finding could inspire new body plans for

With gravity’s effects mitigated, atoms orbiting Earth on China’s space station reached about 10 trillionths of a kelvin.

City lights from the midwestern United States to the East Coast sparkle across the landscape a couple of hours before sunrise.